On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:14 -0500, Julian Lamb wrote: > Peter, > Well, as the person who handles pretty much all gerbv bugs, I guess > my response is "maybe". I admit the Sourceforge site isn't perfect, but > to be honest I've never been a big fan of Launchpad either...it's always > seemed a bit unintuitive to me.
Probably true. I've used both a lot now, so I don't find LP unintuitive myself (nor SF really), it is just little things about SourceForge which adds up to me feeling stressed after I've had to use it for a while. There is nothing so damning or concrete I can put my finger on it and lay blame. Some things which irritate me are the sort order of bug follow-ups, and its habit of logging you off too often - then forgetting where you were after you try to login. I often found myself bumping heads with SF over attachments to bugs too - having to download a patch file and find it on my HDD before I could view it? Seems to work in the browser for LP. Similarly, clicking on a schematic / PCB attachment, it opens right up in gschem or PCB. > So, I guess I would ask what would be the key benefits to switching > gerbv over? I've learned to live with the annoyances of the Sourceforge > system, so that I don't think Launchpad would really make MY life much > easier. No problem.. I don't want to make a hard-sell for LP, keep an eye on whether it proves to be a positive experience for gEDA / PCB, and make an informed decision based upon our experiences. > But, if it has significant advantages other people would > appreciate and actually use, then I'd be open to the idea. I just worry > that people might fall into the trap of thinking "bug fixing isn't > really that fun...let's blame the tracking software for my frustration". Probably an element of that involved. There is probably an element of novelty due to the move which has prompted Peter B to go through doing triage and start killing off bugs. (still - valuable whatever the reason!). A possible downside of LP is its bug search isn't brilliant. Any non-trivial search is hidden behind a "Advanced search" page sadly. Not that it has caused me much grief yet. Solid features.. take a look at this kind of thing: Targeting bugs to a milestone seems nicer: (IIRC SF can do this too) https://launchpad.net/pcb/+milestone/next-bug-release https://launchpad.net/pcb/+milestone/future-feature-release I'm thin on the ground of compelling reasons actually. Perhaps the one thing which makes me smile - is that I can usually type a launchpad URL from memory and find what I'm looking for (perhaps minus a bug number). This is clearly not the case with SF URLS. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
